Then, the washing machine!

Yesterday Beckie came to me with "the washing machine keeps running". It wouldn't discharge.

Tonight I tore it apart and found a sock in the pump. Guess that makes it awful hard to get the water out of the machine!

Still trying to figure out what to do about the Taurus. It's still at Browns, where they want $523 to get it out of hawk, but "oh, yeah, you need a new engine! Please add $1900 to your bill, and we'll take care of it!" It blue books for $2100! Give me a break!

Test drove a Corolla over the weekend. Nice ride. Nice price, too!

Now I'm driving Adam's Crown Vic. That's something!

Woods weekend

Left the Taurus back at Browns for more repair, as it is still not right.

Rented an Enterprise car for the weekend, so I could go up north while Dawn stayed home to work.

This weekend found my brother, my buddy Jim and I helping my Dad clear some trees in preparation for his 0.86 mile light line installation. We managed to clear all but 0.25 miles, leaving enough work for another day, I guess! We delivered the proceeds from our harvest to Jim's yard so he can feed his outdoor wood burner.

"Taurus" day

Put the Taurus in to Browns Wednesday night so they could tell me why the oil light is on steady all the time. Diagnosis: bad switch. They want $110 total to repair.

I take the Taurus back, pay $37.50 for diagnosis then $7.95 at Fochman's for a switch and spent Thursday evening swapping it out. While I had the switch out, rolled the engine over and saw the pump eject oil out the hole, so it is doing some kind of work.

As it is not an actual Ford part, the wire connection is incorrect, so a pair of snippers and an eyelet fix that issue.

Start it, and the oil light is no longer lit!

Now, what to think about it sounding like a sewing machine for the last 20 miles or so?!?!

It's connected!

Well, for better or worse, I got the septic hooked up!

I was having trouble towards the end, trying to get pipes connected by pushing on two sides of the same wall. Got Beckie and Rach to help, but it was still difficult.

The redirected pipe,

across the back of the toilet,

through the utility room and outside.


For those who've seen the downstairs bath in the last couple of years, you'll be surprised to know the shower really is white!

However, the thing I learned is that doing it yourself is not always a way to save money. Sometimes, things happen:


Now, I just have to figure out how to route the basement system to vent:

Back to work!

Last weekend was great weather to roll up the pool. As Rach and I discussed during that process, we don't think it will find the light of day next year. So much work into putting it up and putting away, and I think it was used 3 or 4 times all summer!

Well, I finally got back to my other project: connecting the sewer system.
I have to go through the bathroom:

And the utility room to get out of the house:


I've got the stud work done, and rerouted the water supply for the toilet. Now I have to actually install the sewer pipe to complete the system. I know someone will be happy when that happens!!!